RECENT ADVANCES IN THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES

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Abstract
Essential hypertension is a serious disease in the United States, accounting for perhaps twice as many deaths as cancer.1This condition has been entirely too much neglected by the medical profession for several reasons, which follow: There is a belief that elevation of the blood pressure is a symptom and not a disease. What difference does it make, however, whether hypertension is a symptom or a disease, since it kills people who would survive if they did not have hypertension? Failure to treat hypertension because "it is a symptom and not a disease" is entirely illogical and represents an attitude of mind which should be strongly condemned. There is need for reduction of blood pressure in essential hypertension. There is a common belief that elevation of the blood pressure in essential hypertension is necessary for normal function of the body, particularly of the kidneys, and that reduction

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